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Queer Rights in Rome

Hundreds of activists staged a kiss-in a the Colosseum yesterday in protest of the arrests of two men who were arrested for sharing a kiss there earlier this year. Vladimir Luxuria, a communist politician and the first transgender person elected in Europe Read More!, said she would raise the arrests in Parliament. Vladimir was recently elected, but not without a fight. Her past as a drag performer and sex worker was used against her, and she was physically attacked by a group of fifteen people before being elected.